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This Primordial Black Hole Is So Big It Has Left Astronomers Scratching Their Heads for Over a Decade
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7/1/2024
You have probably heard of supermassive black holes, or black hole that are almost unfathomably big. However, a discovery made by astronomers back in 2011 has had them scratching their heads ever since, because it is so big it’s unexplainable.
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You have probably heard of supermassive black holes, or black holes that are almost unfathomably
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big.
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However, a discovery made by astronomers back in 2011 has had them scratching their heads
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ever since, because it's so big, it's unexplainable.
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The black hole is named J1120 plus 0641, and they say it's more than a billion times
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the mass of our sun.
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The black hole came into existence only 770 million years after the Big Bang.
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What's puzzling physicists is that black holes have a limit of how quickly they can consume
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material, called the Eddington limit.
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When black holes exceed this accretion speed, they begin to shine so brightly that their
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radiation repels material.
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They can, for a short time, exceed this limit, but that doesn't seem to be the case with
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J1120 plus 0641.
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Using the James Webb telescope, experts have been analyzing this incredibly sized black
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hole, but their conclusion is that aside from its extreme size, it's extremely normal.
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Their best guess at the moment is that when this black hole first popped into existence,
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it was seeded by a mysteriously supermassive source.
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